Vocal generalization depends on gesture identity and sequence

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 5564-5574

  Hoffmann, Lukas A ^a   Sober, Samuel J ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bengalese finch; Generalization; Motor error correction; Motor learning; Vocal error correction; Vocal learning

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADAPTATION; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY FEEDBACK; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GESTURE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOCAL GENERALIZATION; VOCAL GESTURE;

BENGALESE FINCH; GENERALIZATION; MOTOR ERROR CORRECTION; MOTOR LEARNING; VOCAL ERROR CORRECTION; VOCAL LEARNING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; FEEDBACK, SENSORY; FINCHES; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); GESTURES; MALE; PITCH PERCEPTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY); VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84899491605     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5169-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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